BaggingClassifier from Scikit-Learn

The BaggingClassifier is an ensemble meta-estimator in machine learning, belonging to the bagging family of methods. Bagging stands for Bootstrap Aggregating. The main idea behind bagging is to reduce variance by averaging the predictions of multiple base estimators trained on different subsets of the training data. Here’s how the BaggingClassifier works: The BaggingClassifier in scikit-learn…

Pre-pruning Decision Tree – GridSearch for Hyperparameter tuning

Grid search is a tuning technique that attempts to compute the optimum values of hyperparameters. It is an exhaustive search that is performed on the specific parameter values of a model. The parameters of the estimator/model used to apply these methods are optimized by cross-validated grid-search over a parameter grid.

Pre-pruning Decision Tree – depth restricted

In general, the deeper you allow your tree to grow, the more complex your model will become because you will have more splits and it captures more information about the data and this is one of the root causes of overfitting. We can limit the tree with max_depth of tree:

Feature Importance in Decision Tree

In scikit-learn, the feature_importances_ attribute is associated with tree-based models, such as Decision Trees, Random Forests, and Gradient Boosted Trees. This attribute provides a way to assess the importance of each feature (or variable) in making predictions with the trained model. When you train a tree-based model, the algorithm makes decisions at each node based…

Visualizing the Decision Tree

To visualize a decision tree in scikit-learn, you can use the plot_tree function from the sklearn.tree module. This function allows you to generate a visual representation of the decision tree. Here’s a simple example: To show the decision tree as text in scikit-learn, you can use the export_text function from the sklearn.tree module. This function…